Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Bender Ignacio, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), who is the 2023 recipient of the Fialkow Award. The Fialkow Award honors the late UW Dean of Medicine and Chair of Medicine Dr. Philip Fialkow and his wife, the late Helen Fialkow, and recognizes the outstanding achievements of junior faculty in medicine in research, teaching, clinical work, and academic…
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced the selection of the inaugural group of Freeman Hrabowski Scholars, including two researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. They are Claudia Moreno, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, and Patrick Mitchell, assistant professor of microbiology.
Dr. Philip Greenberg, professor (Medical Oncology) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, and membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
Distinguished Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center brain cancer expert Eric Holland, MD, PhD, was named the Endowed Chair in Cancer Biology. Holland directs Fred Hutch’s Human Biology Division and Seattle Translational Tumor Research, an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional program developed to enhance collaboration and accelerate progress among solid tumor researchers. He also leads a laboratory team dedicated to advancing treatments for brain cancers by untangling the…
The UW recognized seven students from the Department of Bioengineering for the prestigious 2023 Husky 100, an honor awarded to extraordinary juniors, seniors and graduate students who are making meaningful contributions at the University of Washington and beyond. Undergraduates Ellie Bagley, Jake Flynn, Sasha Friese, Hannah Gunderman, Joanne Liu, Brandon Nguyen and Dylan Riley are among 100 students selected from across UW’s…
Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, was today elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for her work to understand the cells and connections in the mammalian brain, and leading the development of tools and openly available data resources that accelerate brain research worldwide. “I am…
Congratulations to UW Bioengineering’s Eric Chudler, and his team at the University of Washington on being nominated for a 2023 Northwest Regional Emmy® Award for the program, “BrainWorks – Vision and the Brain.” BrainWorks takes viewers on a journey inside the human brain and aims to educate children about the wonders of neuroscience. The program won an Emmy® in 2017 for “BrainWorks: Exercise and the…
Dr. Irl Hirsch, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, MACE, Lectureship for the Prevention and Management of the Complications of Diabetes, to be presented during the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) 32nd Annual Meeting next week in Seattle. This lectureship is presented to an individual who has demonstrated exemplary contributions…
The University of Washington today announced that IPD Undergraduate Researcher Hannah Han is among the 2023 Husky 100. Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students from the UW Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma campuses in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the University of Washington. In honor of their many…
Genome mapping made Andrew Stergachis feel “like a kid in a candy store, being able to answer all these questions that were fundamental in the field,” he said. “All this knowledge we had on the research side was not being fleshed out clinically.” Andrew Stergachis says his skills as both a clinical geneticist and basic science researcher helps him approach…